The city of Nouadhibou (Arabic: ????????) is the second largest city in Mauritania and serves as the country’s commercial center.It is famous for being the location of one of the largest ship graveyard in the world. Hundreds of rusting ships…
The SS America was an ocean liner built in 1940 for the United States Lines. She carried many names in the 54 years between her construction and her 1994 wrecking, as she served as the SS America (carrying this name…
High Aim 6 (Chinese : Haian liuhao ) left the port of Liuchiu in southern Taiwan on 31 October 2002, and was then found without its crew, drifting in Australian waters, on 8 January 2003. The owner of the ship,…
Edmund Fitzgerald The famed Edmund Fitzgerald (pictured above), an ore freighter which sank in Lake Superior on November 10, 1975 losing all 26 of its crew, was sighted by a commercial vessel 10 years later. The Griffon In September of…
These ships are a relic from a bygone age, when the Aral Sea in Uzbekistan was a rich area teeming with fish and providing a bustling trade for the surrounding communities. Then, in the space of a few years, much…
New satellite images of a vessel or object resembling the missing yacht Nina have been identified – raising crew families’ hopes of a resolution to the five-month Tasman Sea mystery. The families of the seven crew members say they…
The 114,500-ton ship struck a rock and capsized on Jan. 13, 2012, after captain Francesco Schettino allegedly drove it on an unauthorized route too close to shore, ripping a huge gash in the hull. There are still no signs of…
The Mary Celeste has gained a somewhat eerie notoriety following its discovery, apparently having been abandoned by its crew, with nobody remaining on board. This ghost vessel phenomenon seems to repeat itself, remarkably, in the modern case of the Kaz…
This is a collection of strange ghost ships from around the world. Most of them are explained, but a few still have UNSOLVED mysteries surrounding how they ended up wrecked or abandoned.
A fleet of Navy ghost ships, right out of the Bermuda Triangle [portfolio_slideshow size=full] Not the real Bermuda Triangle — the fictional one where Cthulhu, Amelia Earhart, and Aqua-Sasquatch chill out drinking Bay Breezes. This is actually a photo…
This amazing picture by Patrick Notley claims to show a recently discovered ghost ship, found after a large part of the arctic melted this summer. “As the snow melted, it revelaed the ship that had been abandended 30 years ago”…
Commissioned by Cunard Steamship Company, Ltd., the ship was built in Scotland and launched in 1934. After Her Majesty Queen Mary presented her personal standard, it embarked on its maiden voyage on May 27, 1936, departing Southampton. It took only…
